ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the life and “feminist” perspective of Ines Piacentini Ferreri, looking particularly at her publications in the Italian Methodist periodicals she edited, as well as her published books. It demonstrates through her writing and teaching, as well as her leadership within the life of the church, how her vision of women resonated with a way of life inspired by religious experience and her Methodist beliefs. The “feminism” of this Methodist pioneer was inextricably connected to her evangelicalism and led her to practice a form of female liberation ahead of her time.